Schedule/Timeline

2023

June 1 (12:01 AM) Registration opens (Field limits: 16 mi- 100 entrants, 30 mi- 100 entrants, 40 mi- 60, & 50 mi- 140 entrants)

After 1 week of open registration:  Registration fee increases, field limits combined (total limit of 400 runners, no preference for any distance).

July 29 (9 AM) Training Run starting at Skulls Gap  [This was orinpnally scheduled for July 30 but was moved.]

August 12 (9 AM) Training Run starting in Damascus (at the race start)

August 21 (12:01 AM) Registration closes (runners may still be moved off of the wait list.)

August 26 (8 AM) [Tentative] Course Marking.  Initially meet at Skulls Gap.

September 1 (5-8 PM) Packet Pick-up at the Damascus Gazebo (race start/finish). 

September 2- Race Day!

5:30-6:30 AM Packet pickup at Race Start/Finish

6:45 AM Race brief.  

7:00 AM- 50 & 40 Mile Race starts

7:30 AM- 30 Mile Race starts

8:00 AM- 16 Mile Race starts

Please see the Cut Offs/Time Limits page for time limits on the course.

9:52:06 AM Record 16 mile finish (2010- time adjusted for new start time)

11:16:01 AM Record 30 mile finish (2012- time adjusted for new start time)

11:30 AM Cookout starts

1:12:17 PM Record 40 mile finish (2022)

2:04:05 PM Record 50 mile finish (2017)

4:00 PM Time limit for 16 mile event

5:30 PM Time limit for 30 mile event

7:00 PM Time limit for 40 & 50 mile event (Cookout ends, finish site clean up, etc)

September 3 & 4 Course sweep

Week of September 3-9: Race admin (After action report to US Forest Service, USATF, etc).  

Results will be posted as soon as possible (course cleanup and after action reports are the priority- if these are not done, future races may be at risk).  Emailing the RD to ask about the results slows down the process.